Labyrinths of Fiction
The Approach to al-Mutasim
The book of the fiction by George Kranitis
Lecture handouts:
- Borges, Ficciones
- García Márquez, Crónica de una muerte anunciada
- Carlos Fuentes, Aura (see also resource below)
- Julio Cortázar, Pasajes
- Extracts from the film script of El sueño de los héroes
On-line resources
- A radio programme/discussion of the life and work of Jorge Luis Borges (only available to computers in the .cam.ac.uk domain)
- Excellent collection of Borges criticism, books, essays and articles, all available freely on-line at Borges Center of the University of Pittsburgh. Includes Beatriz Sarlo's study of Borges, A Writer on Edge which Sarlo first gave as a series of lectures to SP5* students when she was Simón Bolívar Professor of Latin American Studies here (also available in Spanish), and the classic Dictionary of Borges.
- Web resource on Aura prepared by Dr Kantaris for ab initio classes (two pages)
- Argentine literature website on Julio Cortázar
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"No one realized that the book and the labyrinth were one and the same..."
(a site of resources and creative inspiration devoted to Jorge Luis Borges)
* The paper was not then called SP5, but was a previos incarnation, Paper 39 “Argentina and Mexico”.
